Re: [pronut-hiv] Care, Support Being Extended to Victims of HIV/AIDS (4)

["Rouzeh Eghtessadi" <rouzeh@safaids.org.zw>]

Thank You Anni,
indeed 'victims' is not a an acceptable term in this era anymore. It implies a sense of helplessness and offers a pathetic aura to being HIV positive of having AIDS. It defeats the purpose of positive living and fuels stigma and discrimination surrounding the epidemic as a whole.
Hence we can replace this with terms such as  "people living with AIDS", and there are many other replacement terms that offer a sense of hope, being a survivor and that fit in well within the continuum of positive living....

Rouzeh Eghtessadi
Public Health Specialist - HIV/AIDS, Gender & Human Rights
Capacity development, Policy Analysis, Research and Advocacy
Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS)

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----- "Marco MENESES" wrote:

>    Why?  Explain,  please give your reasons.
>
> Marco MENESES
>
> ----"Anni Fjord" wrote:
>
>      >   Please can we agree not to use the word AIDS victims?
>      >
>      >Anni Fjord
>      >Central Africa Regional
>      >HIV&AIDS Advisor
>      >Concern Worldwide
>      >P.O.Box 6599
>      >Kampala, Uganda
>      >Mobile + 256 77642667
>      >
>      >----- ProNut-HIV wrote:
>      >
>      >The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa)
>      >
>      >January 7, 2006
>      >WIC
>      >Bahir Dar
>      >
>      >The  Amhara State HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office said care
>      and
>      >support has been given to children who lost their parents due to
>      >HIV/AIDS  and  13,600  people living with the HIV/AIDS and over 16
>      million
>      >birr budget earmarked by international donor organizations.
>      >
>      >Public Relations Officer of the office, Woubishet Tamirat told WIC
>      >yesterday  that  the care and support being provided this year for
>      the
>      >orphans  and  PLWHA  in  all  woredas  of the state is financed by
>      Global Fund
>      >and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
>      >
>      >Accordingly, over 10,660 orphans have been provided with food,
>      >clothing,   educational   materials  and  health  services,  while
>      children who
>      >have  relatives that can support them are united with them and the
>      rest
>      >given money so as they can engage themselves in various income-
>      >generating schemes, he said.
>      >
>      >Besides material and training supports have also been given to 38
>      >associations established by PLWHA, and house-to-house care as well
>      as
>      >provision  of  anti-retroviral drugs and counselling services were
>      being
>      >rendered to their members.
>      >
>      >The  officer  said  a  start up capital and training would also be
>      provided
>      >to  the  PLWHA to engage them in income-generating schemes such as
>      sheep
>      >and  goat  breeding,  urban  farming  and  micro  and  small-scale
>      businesses.
>      >
>      >Some   3,000   PLWHA   are   beneficiaries   of  the  package  and
>      community-based
>      >organizations,  governmental  and  non-governmental  organizations
>      operating
>      >at woreda levels are participating in the overall care and support
>      >efforts, he explained.
>      >
>      >Coalition of associations of PLWHA and professionals from the
>      >secretariat was formed earlier at a state level and monitoring the
>      >effectiveness  of the programme and ensuring the proper channeling
>      of the
>      >resources to the intended beneficiaries, it was learnt.
>      >